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September 2007 Blog Posts

Last week I stopped by the SQL Lounge at the PASS summit in Denver. I met a Microsoft employee named Max Verun, whose official title is Program Manager - Manageability and Servicing Platform. Translated into ordinary geek-speak, he is in charge of Clustering and Cluster Installation. This was a golden opportunity for me. I spent the next hour or so listening to Max and talking with him about where SQL wants to go with clustering. Since none of that conversation is under NDA, I thought I would share some of the highlights.
Clustering will remain a High Availability failover technology. While I...

Hopefully, I won't need a CATCH Block.
In case that opening sentence didn't give you a hint, I am a bit of a tech geek. Bill Graziano talked me into joining this merry band while at the PASS summit last week. While I enjoy answering questions on newsgroups, this will give me a way to initiate conversations. I looked around and decided SQLTeam would be a good place to stand and pontificate.
And now for some real SQL content. Sort of.
Based on a lot of presentations by Microsoft on proposed features and bug fixes, I have to conclude that Connect really matters. ...